46. How Trauma Is Passed Down Through Generations (Part One)
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
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🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Borderline personality disorder.
Sean grew up in an extremely violent and chaotic environment. His father was alcoholic and abusive, his mum depressed. He remembers feeling no love at all growing up. Sean's mom was still a kid herself when she started having kids. By the age of 23 she had five children. And Sean's mom had come from a traumatic childhood and so had his Dad. Two children of trauma coming together, continuing the cycles of alcoholism, violence and abuse towards their eight children. Generational trauma is real and Sean has spent a lifetime suffering from its affects. Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder Sean has struggled big time, including many suicide attempts. But he is now actively taking control back of his mental health and sharing his journey on his podcast You Me and BPD. Our chat begins this week and continues next week in Part 2.
You can find Sean on his podcast https://www.instagram.com/youmeand.bpd/ and on instagram https://www.instagram.com/youmeand.bpd/
If you have a story to share for this podcast please connect with me at www.instagram.com/mybigloveproject or send an email to bigloveproject@iinet.net.au. I would LOVE! to connect with you.
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| 0:00.0 | No, I never really felt loved as a child. Some of my siblings, yes, my parents |
| 0:07.0 | There was so much chaos with them that it's extremely hard to feel love in all that violence and chaos |
| 0:14.6 | because you don't know when you're gonna be hurt again and |
| 0:19.8 | So you can't really how do you feel love and even if you did feel love you open yourself up |
| 0:25.2 | You're gonna get a beaten probably the next day anyway |
| 0:30.4 | You |
| 0:35.2 | Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Dawn Chitty when we are born |
| 0:39.4 | We arrive here as pure and perfect |
| 0:43.0 | Souls and the direction our life takes from that moment is |
| 0:47.2 | deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives and what our parents bring to our lives is |
| 0:54.0 | deeply connected to what their parents brought to their lives and |
| 0:58.4 | That's the cycle of families. I have always craved |
| 1:03.5 | Connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you |
| 1:09.6 | What makes you the absolutely unique human that you are |
| 1:15.5 | Stories are medicine for the soul they can connect us and |
| 1:20.0 | They can change the world and so in this podcast. I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story |
| 1:28.1 | What happened to them how they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite everything to arrive right here |
| 1:37.2 | in this moment |
| 1:39.4 | Content warning if you are triggered by the themes of this podcast please seek a help line in your city |
| 1:50.7 | Hey beautiful souls |
| 1:52.8 | Generational trauma shows up in so many different ways depression panic attacks nightmares insomnia |
| 2:00.0 | Issues with self-esteem and confidence anxiety |
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